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took me a grand total of
The part of my brain that regularly corresponds with my inner teenager checked in with 15-year-old me, and, between spins of Nirvana’s In Utero, the young dude confirmed he was stoked.
about two hours and less
than $70 to get my medical
Wishing well Last year, Sierra Wellness Connection was the first medical marijuana dispensary to open in Reno. A couple of weeks ago, I met with Deane Albright, founder and treasurer of Sierra Wellness, and Eva Grossman, who was, until very recently, the director of marketing and community outreach director for Sierra Wellness. Her husband, Jeff Grossman, is still the cultivation facility manager. Eva Grossman is also a patient. She uses cannabis to manage chronic pain and prevent seizures. She’s passionate about medical marijuana, which she describes as the best solution to the “prescription medication epidemic.” “I’m one of the people who has been thrown into pain management and stuck on these addictive narcotic
marijuana card. And then I was able to go to a dispensary, buy pot, and smoke it—fully compliant with Nevada law.
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medications—and didn’t want to be,” she said. “And this is the only thing that has worked. I was able to get off of them. You put people on these medications and, obviously, they’re going to get addicted. They’re physically addictive.” But how is developing a marijuana habit any different? Aren’t you trading reliance on one substance for reliance on another? Grossman says no. First of all, marijuana is not physically addictive. “With narcotic medications, no matter who you are, you start taking them, take them for a period of time, then you stop, you’ll start getting runny eyes, goosebumps, runny nose, vomiting, diarrhea, all kinds of symptoms of withdrawal,” she said. “With marijuana, you can use marijuana, and if you stop, nothing is going to happen except that maybe whatever you’re taking it for—say you’re taking it for nausea, the nausea will probably return and it may seem exacerbated at first because you haven’t had it in a while.”
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